Trump Wants the Western Hemisphere--Canada Included -- MacLeans

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https://macleans.ca/politics/trump-wants-the-western-hemisphere-canada-included/

Trump is asserting U.S. dominance over the Americas, starting with Venezuela. Is Canada next?

n early December, the Trump administration unveiled a new national security strategy. It called its new policy the "Trump Corollary" to the Monroe Doctrine, President James Monroe's 1823 declaration of U.S. supremacy in the Americas. That month, I was in Lima, Peru, working with political scientists on a project to help voters evaluate presidential candidates. We'd watched the erosion of democracy in the U.S. and Latin America with alarm, and we didn't know what to think. Was this bombastic rhetoric or a return to the long history of U.S. intervention in the Western Hemisphere?

The answer came swiftly, of course, when a U.S. military operation dubbed "Absolute Resolve" captured Venezuelan dictator Nicolás Maduro and his wife Cilia Flores and spirited them to New York to stand trial. At a press conference the same day, Trump was asked the obvious question: who, now, was in power in Venezuela? "We're gonna be running it," he replied. He added that the U.S. would "rebuild the oil infrastructure," and would be "getting back the oil that was stolen from us." Seemingly, the Monroe Doctrine was back--with a vengeance.

The Monroe Doctrine declared that the United States would regard any attempt by European powers to "extend their system to any portion of this hemisphere" as a threat to U.S. security. Framed as a defence of republican government against monarchy, it claimed the Western Hemisphere as a sphere of influence. The imperialistic implications were even clearer in Theodore Roosevelt's Corollary of the Monroe Doctrine in 1904, which arrogated to the United States "international police power" to justify intervention in Santo Domingo (1904), Nicaragua (1911) and Haiti (1915). Harvard historian John H. Coatsworth estimates that between 1898 and 1994, the U.S. intervened to change governments in Latin America at least 41 times--roughly once every 28 months in the 20th century. And despite the lofty statements to the contrary, U.S. intervention has rarely supported democracy.
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Trump's strategy is the Roosevelt corollary on steroids. It expresses the same paternalistic view, but with a focus on preventing mass migration, using military force against transnational crime and drugs, a carte blanche to ensure the Western Hemisphere is free from foreign ownership of strategic assets and locations and ensuring U.S. control over critical supply chains.

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1. for sure, that's the deal

[erronis]

2. And EVERYBODY wants the natural resources (minerals) of Africa.

[Fiendish Thingy]

3. Not without the deaths of thousands of US troops

Go read about the Quebec separatists in the 1970’s- the bombings and kidnappings.

Now go read about the Irish “troubles”

We don’t fuck around up here- we might not be able to win a war against the US, but we can send dozens, if not hundreds, of Americans troops home in body bags, every month.

There will be seniors like myself learning to make IED’s to kill invading troops.

The costs to the US of invading Canada or Greenland are too great- Cuba is the only country that should be sweating right now.